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Ik heb een probleem met de hypocrisie.
Frankrijk is in West Europa waarschijnlijk het land dat het meest censureert en de meeste mensen veroordeelt wegens posts op internet. Ze gebruiken de meest extreme interpretatie van "l'apologie de la terreur", arrsteren zelfs kinderen van 10 jaar. Na Charlie Hebdo werden mensen gearresteerd wegens cartoons die een parodie waren op cartoons van het blad.
Er zijn mensen veroordeelt wegens actie voeren voor BDS.
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The French government, and some French judges, have also framed campaigns for BDS as discriminatory, though not against Jews but against Israeli nationals. In 2013, fourteen French activists were fined 1000 euro per person and a total damages of 28,000 euro, because they had entered a supermarket wearing T-shirts with the slogan,‘Palestine vivra[Palestine shall live], boycott Israel’, and were handing out flyers with the text,‘Boycott products from Israel, to buy Israeli products is to legitimate the crimes in Gaza, to support the politics of the Israeli government’.
This action took place in 2009; the activists were first prosecuted in 2011, after French Minister of Justice Michèle Alliot-Marie had issued a memo commanding prosecutors to prosecute citizens who call for a boycott of Israeli products. The fourteen activists were acquitted in the first instance, but a Court of Appeal convicted them based on the Law on Freedom of the Press, which prohibits ‘inciting [provocation] discrimination, hatred, or violence against a group of persons because of their origin or belonging to an ethnicity, race, religion, or certain nation’. Although the activists had called for a boycott of Israeli products, the Court of Appeal held that they had incited discrimination of Israeli producers, because of their belonging to the Israeli nation. Therefore, the Court found that the activists could not claim their right to freedom of expression. The Court of Cassation upheld the conviction.
https://www.tandfonline.c(...)2134?needAccess=trueDie zaak leidde uiteindelijk tot een veroordeling van Frankrijk door het Europees hof voor de rechten van de mens.